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Huntsville's St. Joseph Catholic Church welcomes Redemptorist Father Maurice Nutt for fall mission

St. Joseph Catholic Church

St. Joseph Catholic Church, 2300 Beasley Ave. in Huntsville, pictured here just before its November 2010 opening, will welcome the Rev. Maurice Nutt, a professor of preaching and nationally known mission and retreat leader, for the fall revivial, which will be Sept. 8 through 10, 2013. (The Huntsville Times file / Michael Mercier)

Father Maurice Nutt, a nationally known preacher, revival and retreat leader from Chicago, will be the guest speaker for the fall mission Sept. 8-10, 2013, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 2300 Beasley Ave. in Huntsville, Ala. (Courtesy of St. Joseph's)

The meetings begin at 7 p.m. nightly at St. Joseph’s. The church is next to Holy Family School at 2300 Beasley Ave. just off of Pulaski Pike between University Drive and Holmes Avenue.

The theme for the mission is “Faith that Can Conquer Anything.”

Father Maurice, as parishioners in his home Redemptorist Parish Mission Preaching Team call him, is in demand nationally for revivals, missions and retreats because of his joyful, energetic, Bible-fed and Spirit-led teaching.

Father Maurice was baptized a Catholic as an infant. He professed vows in the Redemptorist congregation in 1983, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1989 by Divine Word Bishop J. Terry Steib. Father Maurice specializes in preaching, evangelization, African-American culture, spirituality, and community and church development.

He holds a doctorate in preaching from Aquinas Institute of Theology in Saint Louis, a master’s in theology from Xavier University, a master’s in divinity from Catholic Theological Union, and a bachelor’s in philosophy and communication from Holy Redeemer College. In 2001, he completed a leadership program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

In addition to being a member of the Redemptorist Parish Mission Preaching Team, Father Maurice teaches preaching at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans. He is also a member of the board of directors of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus.

His books are “Thea Bowman: In My Own Words, Advent and Christmas Wisdom from Saint Alphonsus Liguori,” and “Lent and Easter Wisdom from Saint Alphonsus Liguori”. Father Maurice is also a contributor to the African American Catholic Youth Bible, a collaborative project between the National Black Catholic Congress and Saint Mary’s Press to be published in 2014.

The revival meetings, like all services at St. Joseph Church, where Salvatorian Father Joseph Lubrano is the pastor, are open to visitors. For more information, please contact F. DeKarlos Blackmon, the director of liturgy and music, at 256-534-8459.